Two aquatic moss species, including the exceptionally rare Cinclidotus danubicus, have been recorded for the first time in ...

Italy's botanical map has just been redrawn at its smallest scale. The twentieth installment of the Notulae to the Italian ...

Learn how scientists found that moss is hiding years of valuable animal and plant DNA, even some from rare species. It’s that time of the year when cozy, rustic wreaths and centerpieces adorn our ...

A team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Duke University and other institutions studying Sphagnum moss have identified two new species in North America, and they are learning how evolution may ...

AKA worm or spoon moss, this versatile, shiny species looks a bit like shag carpeting and its translucent leaves add to its green color intensity. In sunnier places it will take on golden overtones.

Researchers have established the world's largest collection of moss species for the peat industry and science. Peatlands with their huge diversity of peat moss species store about 30 percent of the ...

A 390-million-year-old moss called Takakia lives in some of Earth's most remote places, including the icy cliffs of the Tibetan Plateau. In a decade-long project, a team of scientists climbed some of ...

Extinct moss is being reintroduced across Yorkshire's moors in the fight against climate change. Sphagnum moss can hold 20 times its weight in water and helps create peat bogs, where dead vegetation ...

The moss species is named Bryum bharatiensis after the Hindu goddess of learning. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys ...